It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The love for justice that is in us is not only the best part of our being but it is also the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There is a great fear of our Union - a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work,… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed.… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I have met many, many farm workers and friends who love justice and who are willing to sacrifice for what is right.… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places.… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
The name of the game is to talk to people. If you don't talk to people, you can't get started...You knock on twenty doors… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike a little… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share
